‘A former Supreme Court judge of the Australian state of Victoria has warned that guards at immigration detention centres will in effect be allowed to “beat asylum seekers to death” under a proposed amendment to an migration bill.
During a Senate hearing on changes to Australia’s Migration Act, Stephen Charles QC said that an extension to the power of guards in detention centres would allow officers to use “reasonable force against any person” in order to protect the life, health or safety of people in detention or to maintain the good order, peace, or security of a detention centre.
However, Mr Charles told the hearing that the proposed measures would “inevitably encourage violence” against asylum seekers, the Guardian reported.’
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